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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Wish List
Message-ID: <194@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 01:57:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.194
Posted: Wed Jun 17 01:57:35 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 06:29:55 EDT
References: <150@sugar.UUCP> <1219@crash.CTS.COM> <347@sol.ARPA>
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 27
Keywords: AmigaDOS speed
Summary: 80 by 24 was not intended to be a hard limit!

In article <347@sol.ARPA>, mcinerny@rochester.arpa (Michael McInerny) writes:
> In article <1219@crash.CTS.COM> ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
> >In article <150@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
> >>4) A new CON: device that uses a simple-refresh window, keeps track of 24
> >>lines by 80 columns of text, and has scroll bars to pan a full size screen...
> >This is a good idea....
> 
> No!  I _like_ the current console.device.  It's simple, effective, and 
> flexible.  If I want a 700x400 character CON:, I can get it (I won't
> be able to read it :-).  Please don't limit me to 80x24.  I may _want_
> a 40x10 line screen. If you want something fancier, get a different
> device (say, an ADM: or VT100: or ANSI: or TERM:), and use that.
> 
> The console.device is nice just the way it is.

1) 80 by 24 was intended as an example. What's wrong with:

	CON:x0/y0/width/height/80/24/Title?

2) You're right. I even bitched about the same thing before. If you do design
a new console device, don't make it console.device and don't call it CON:. I
like TTY: myself (though VT100: has a nice ring to it). Boy, is my face red.

3) If there are too many programs that open console.device rather than CON:,
or better yet a user specified name (NewCLI AUX: comes to mind), what can be
done to allow CON: as well as TTY: windows (one reason I don't use CONMAN:
it doesn't give me an alternative)?